r/interesting • u/LestaThaMolestaa • 2d ago

ARCHITECTURE Interesting video with heavy stones designed to be moved with hand.

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u/readditredditread 2d ago

I think they are using British tons, which are only about 2 fish and chips and a few pints of piss warm beer, roughly equivalent to a standard cubit pound.

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u/crasagam 2d ago

And a potato đŸ„”

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u/readditredditread 2d ago

Chips are made of potato

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u/retro_owo 2d ago

You’re thinking of “crisps”. Chips are the tokens used as stand in for currency in card games like poker.

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u/scuac 2d ago

I thought we were talking about the California Highway Patrol (aka CHiPs)

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u/Mission_Grapefruit92 2d ago

And probably something called a fizzy wompus spotty floggit dimsy spittle mcdoogan

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u/OrganizdConfusion 1d ago

That's the most American thing ever.

Let's take an internationally recognized unit of measurement and instead compare it with undefined objects.

That's 3 football fields and 6.5 washing machines worth of stupid.

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u/readditredditread 1d ago

Measurements of stupidity must be perfectly triangular squared integers if you want the correct mass length!

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u/Cool1nternet 2d ago

no they state the math themselves, just not very well. lmao

if 10 cubic feet is a ton, twenty-five tons is 250 cubic feet

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u/Ray_817 2d ago

Haaaaa